A lot of clients ask questions about who is the best San Antonio personal injury or car wreck lawyer in San Antonio. The best lawyer for your case is the one that does the best job on your case. I tell potential clients to pick someone they are comfortable with and they believe will do a good job for them.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real world cases handled by Justin Hill in the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real, and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

Are you the best car crash lawyer in San Antonio? Those are the types of questions we sometimes get when we're meeting with a potential new client for the first time. What's happened in San Antonio is, all you see on TV and billboards and buses anymore seems to be lawyer advertisements, how great lawyers are, how wonderful their firms are, and how they have these gigantic numbers that 99 out of 100 times have no bearing on most cases because every case is unique. That's created this world where everybody wants to know, will their case be as good as the one they saw on the bus or the TV or the billboard.

I always tell my clients, "I'm not here to tell you I'm the best, and there's really no way to determine what the best is." If you've been in a car crash in San Antonio, you want a lawyer who's going to be the best for your case, and your case requires more than just somebody screaming at you on television or pointing at you in a billboard. You want somebody who's going to give you personalized service. You want to know that your lawyer is your lawyer, and you're not going to be shuffled around 20 lawyers, and three different departments, and never know who's calling you next. You want a lawyer who knows how to prepare your case for trial because a lawyer that prepares her case for trial is going to get offered more money, and if it goes to trial, they're going to be able to properly try your case to get you the maximum recovery.

The most important thing is, you want to hire a lawyer you feel comfortable with, that you feel that they're going to take care of you, they're going to do the right thing for you, that you can communicate with. There is no best when it comes to any individual case. What there is is a whole lot of misinformation and a whole lot of overloading of information out there.

How do you find the best? You meet with them, you read their reviews. If you can talk to former clients, try that. Ask them what their experience is in San Antonio, or whatever venue your crash occurred in. Find out, can they try your case? Do they try cases? At the end of the day, you need to make a judgment call on who you think is going to be best for you in a case. There is no great lawyer answer to who is the best. There is going to be somebody that is the best for your case and the best for you. Do your homework and find that best car crash lawyer for your case and for you personally.

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After two people are in a crash, there is no way to know how the other will react. They may be angry, hurt, confused, etc. We get asked from people and clients if they should speak to the other driver. I tell them to use their best judgement, not share too much information, but try to do so with the police present if you must.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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We've been discussing questions we get from clients or potential clients or family and friends following a car crash here in San Antonio. Normally, we get the same standard questions and, normally, we give out the same standard advice. There are a few things that should be done after a car crash and that's what we're trying to talk about in this series of podcasts.

One of the things that we are always asked about and that we always discuss is how to interact with the other driver.

Whether you're at fault or they're at fault or they're at fault but blaming you or vice versa, there are a few things that need to be done. One, we always tell everybody to call the authorities. If it's an emergency, call the emergency line which is 9-1-1. If it's not an emergency, there's no injuries, there is no public safety danger and no cars on fire and no reason to believe an emergency exists, call the non-emergency line. At the end of the day, it's always better to have a third-party document what they see and what they know and what they've been told.

You don't want the insurance company at the end of the day accusing you of making something up or saying that a crash occurred or accusing you that a crash actually did not occur. A police officer is able to give an additional report and we think it's important that anybody contact the police officer. However, something we always get asked is what interaction should they have with the other driver. Sometimes, after a crash, the other driver's irate and threatening, maybe borderline hostile or violent. In those situations, we tell people, stay in your car. Keep it closed and locked if you can and call the authorities.

In other instances, people are just trying to do the right thing and, most of the time, people want to do the right thing. So, we tell them, exchange insurance information. If you can take a picture of their insurance card, do that. Share your insurance information as well and share names and phone numbers. At the end of the day, both of you want to make sure the situation gets handled appropriately and normally people aren't trying to hide the ball. Now, if the other driver has something to hide, they don't have a driver's license, they've been drinking, they were texting on their phone or maybe they don't have insurance at all, you might find it difficult to get information from them.

I always tell people it's important to try to get that information from them. If they won't give you that information, take down their license plate. Take down whatever information you can take down. That way, if they drive off or take off or in the wind later, you have some information that you can fall back on, identifying who was involved in that crash. The most important thing we tell people is use your best judgment. If somebody wants to try to help you work through things and they're being nice and friendly, then share information because you both want to get the same thing. You both want things taken care of and you both have car insurance for a reason.

Recently, I heard a San Antonio Police Officer discuss with a crowd of when 911 should be used. One of the examples he used was following a car wreck especially if there are injuries, public safety hazard, a fire, or anything that may be an emergency situation.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real, and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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Justin Hill: Our law firm gets phone calls from people that have been in accidents, car crashes, on-the-job injuries at any number of times in the process. Sometimes, we get a call while people are still at the scene. Sometimes we get a call a week before somebody statute of limitations is fixing to expire. One of the more common questions we get when people are calling us from the scene is, "Should I call 911?" That's a very specific question that really we, from afar, on the telephone, can't make a judgment for.

911 is an emergency phone system, and in San Antonio, luckily, I've seen some literature whereby guidance is provided on when to use the 911 phone number as opposed to the non-emergency line. Now, in a car crash, oftentimes people do call 911 because there are issues of public safety, there's an emergency situation, there's injuries, but sometimes it is not an emergency situation.

The information I'm going to provide now, that has been provided to me by an officer once that I just jotted down on some notes, is no specific rules or regulations and it's not an exhaustive list. What I was told one time whenever we were talking about that question was, he said that he always tells people that if there's anything involving a fire, that if there's a car fire, a fire following an accident, an explosion, always call 911 about a fire.

Anytime there's a medical emergency or people think there is a medical emergency, the people should call 911 as that's what 911 is for, it's an emergency hotline. He told me that if you think you've witnessed a crime or a crime is being committed, that that too is an emergency and you should call 911. Finally, the last thing we talked about for a while was he was talking about a car crash, that in the instance of a car crash, he says you should call 911 if there's even a chance that somebody's hurt.

Maybe they're not all obviously hurt, maybe they just feel dizzy, but if there's a chance that somebody is hurt, you should call 911, or if the crash creates a situation that could lead to more injuries or more accidents such as blocking lanes of travel, or rolled over vehicle, a vehicle that was about to catch fire. We can't give an exhaustive list to our clients, especially when they call us on the telephone at the scene of a crash on when to dial 911, but we will relay the information that has been relayed to us.

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Sometimes we get calls from people that were just in a car crash in San Antonio. They want to know what they should do and how they should respond. One question we get asked is about taking photos of the crash. We always tell people to document as much as you can if you are not too injured to do so.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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I've previously discussed on this podcast how sometimes we get calls from clients or friends or family members who've been in crashes and the crash has just happened. They literally might be on the side of the road or still in their vehicle following the crash before police arrive before anybody shows up to help. The first thing they do is call, me somebody in my office. Usually, in those situations, it's because it's somebody we've known for a long time, former clients, people we've known from high school or growing up or family members.

We get all kinds of questions but we always tell them there's a few things they need to do. One of the things we talked to them about is take pictures. A picture is worth a thousand words is something we've always heard. A picture doesn't lie is another thing we've always heard. Following a crash, people that have been injured or people who were in the crash, sometimes aren't thinking clearly. Sometimes, they're not 100% sure what even happened. Between that crash and after they spoke to lawyers and after they spoke to their insurance company, spoke to whoever else tells them their opinion of what happened or their version of events.

Memories can change. One thing that keeps people honest is photos. I always tell people if they've been in a crash, take as many photos as they can of their car, of the other cars, of people that are around the roadway, the weather, lights, if they're there. If it was at an intersection with lights, or if it was an intersection with stop signs or yield signs, just to take as many pictures as they can because you don't know when those are going to matter. I learned this lesson maybe the hard way whenever I was a very young lawyer.

I was assigned to work on a case that was another attorney's case because I was probably a year out of law school. When I was working on the case, in a deposition, the defense lawyer showed up with a bunch of pictures. He said those pictures he had received from the Texas Department of Public Safety, they were pictures that depicted a rollover accident. The rollover accident involved a tire that had failed. The allegation was that the tire failed due to a manufacturing defect and that caused the vehicle to rollover.

The pictures he showed me looked a little different than the pictures that we had received. The pictures that were really important to him were pictures that I did not recognize. Now, they look similar to pictures I'd seen, but they seemed bigger and broader and showed more. What they showed was additional facts that we did not know at that time. What we learned after the fact was that the DPS had produced pictures to us in a cropped format. They had taken the photos and they had cropped them down to what they thought were the important portions of the picture.

That's how they had given them to us. That's the part of the official file that was produced. The defense attorney was able to get copies of the un-cropped photos in their native format. Those photos showed things that were important...

Distracted driving in San Antonio is a major problem. Everywhere you go, you see people texting and driving or distracted in other ways. This is the cause of many car crashes in San Antonio. We oftentimes find out that distracted driving was a cause of a crash after we request phone records and take depositions.

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Speaker: Welcome to Hill Law Firm cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day to day basis.

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After doing this for as long as I have, I've seen enough cases now where I can tell the other driver was distracted who caused the crash. In San Antonio, just driving around the roadways, you can see drivers looking at their phones, playing with whatever's in their lap, messing with their coffee or some other nonsense that's making them not pay attention to the roadways. Distracted driving is one of the biggest causes of crashes in San Antonio and the rest of the United States. Everybody has a phone. Everybody has a smartphone and far too few people put it down when they drive.

It's hard to prove these cases because nobody wants to admit they were texting and driving or looking at their phone. However, sometimes at the scene, I have clients who say they saw them coming in their rearview or from their left and they could see that the person was looking at something in their lap or their hand. Distracted driving is one of the largest causes of crashes in the city. At our law firm, we do a couple of things to make sure that we protect our clients against distracted driving. One of the things is we always get the phone records of the defendant driver. That will let us know if they were on their phone right about the time of the crash. Whether texting or receiving a text or on a phone call, we can see that.

Sometimes now, people have cameras in their cars. The rise of GoPros and these other types of cameras in the vehicles allow us to sometimes actually see what was going on. Also, we're able to sometimes find witnesses. More than 50% of the time, distracted driving is related to a smartphone, texting and driving, or some other use of a phone that causes distraction. We currently have two cases in which the other driver said they were playing with their coffee when the crash occurred and one lady got covered in coffee. People trying to eat while drive or check directions while drive all of these things lead to distracted driving accidents.

At any given time, our firm has a dozen or so cases that are definitely attributable to a distracted driver. Distracted driving is one of the scourges on our roads in San Antonio, something we take very seriously and something we continue to investigate on every single car crash case or other crash that comes into our office.

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We recently filed a lawsuit in San Antonio on behalf of a young woman that slipped and fell in a bathroom at an amusement park. The fall did not injure her but the big sharp piece of metal that was jutting out cut her arm wide open. The piece of metal was bent and twisted and sharp. It created an unreasonably dangerous condition on the premises.

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ٍSpeaker: Welcome to Hill law firm cases. A podcast discussing real world cases handled by Justin Hill and The Hill law firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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Speaker: Every case that comes into the office is different. One thing I can tell every client is that almost without fail the insurance company and defense attorneys will make up some excuse and some defense as to why. First, they're not at fault and if they are at fault you're not hurt and if you were hurt it wasn't their fault. If you were hurt and the jury believes you're hurt well you're better now. No matter what the case or what the facts, I can count on one hand the number of times the other side is agreed they're at fault, and they owe money.

We're currently working on a case in which a young lady, less than 10 years old, went to the bathroom at an amusement park. Now, this bathroom was close to where the aquatic rides are located so the bathroom would get wet inside. The Aquatic Park knew that. They knew the bathrooms could get wet. It's their duty to make sure that they have a flooring surface that does not get slippery when wet. These flooring surfaces exist and the amusement park knows that. This case was different. When this young lady slipped, her arm hit the side of the bathroom stall. That by itself should be fine.

However, the bathroom stall had a piece of metal, a metal flange that had been folded out. Essentially, a piece of metal was sticking out when it should not have. Our client's arm hit this piece of metal as she was falling down. Her slip was due to the slippery floor but her cut that required 28 stitches down her arm was due to this metal flange that inexplicably was bent out facing outward. Sharp, rusty and exactly where somebody who fell who hit this bathroom stall would hit.

The insurance company called us and as they do, they had a defense. Their defense was well she slipped because it was wet, and she should've known it was wet. Sometimes I never know if they're making up their defenses, or they just don't understand the claim. I agreed with her that the floor was wet and our client slipped on a wet floor but that doesn't excuse or changes the fact that there shouldn't be a dangerous piece of metal sticking out from a bathroom stall. As I said earlier, they never admit to this but you could tell by her silence that she agreed that they had a dangerous premises defect in that bathroom and that premises defect led to this cut on my client's arm.

Now, this young lady got 28 stitches. She'll have a scar for life. She's going to hear the defense say it's her fault for slipping in a bathroom. The slip isn't what caused her injury. That's what premises liability cases are. That if a business wants you to come onto their property and spend money that they have to keep their premises in a safe condition. They have to remedy dangerous defects on the property, and they actually have to inspect and look out for them. They don't get to just hide behind the log and when somebody is injured say, "Well, we didn't know about it". All too often that's the attempt of companies and their insurance companies to try to avoid liability. However, in this case where this young lady slipped and fell...

Handling cases with other law firms is a great joy. We get to learn together and work cases with new perspectives. One of the largest food poisoning outbreaks in San Antonio history is being prosecuted by Hill Law firm and our co-counsel.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and The Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real, and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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One thing we get to do in our practice as a small boutique San Antonio personal injury law firm, is work with other attorneys. I've seen in my career where attorneys have ended up either getting run over by a defense lawyer, outspent by a corporation, or just buried, because they either have too much pride or something else where they refused to involve other attorneys. In my career, I've had multiple occasions to involve other attorneys on cases. Sometimes, it's due to capacity at the law firm, where I need help. Sometimes, it's due to a very specialized part of law that I want to learn on.

In both situations, I've found that it's always been helpful. My client's always been better served. The client pays no more fee, the attorney's share fee, and share work. One thing this does allow though is the attorneys get to work together and learn from each other. Some of the things I've learned from other attorneys, on cases I've brought them in on, stick with me today and have changed the way I practice law. Currently, probably five cases in my firm I'm working with another attorney. One case involves a food poisoning outbreak. In this case, we represent probably 30 people who were injured in a food poisoning outbreak in San Antonio, Texas.

I've handled food poisoning outbreak cases and food poisoning products cases for the entirety of my career, but on this one, the numbers started getting higher and higher. I reached out to an attorney I'd worked some food poisoning cases with before out of the Northwest. Not only is he an expert in food poisoning cases, he was the first, the pioneer. He took on Jack in the Box and E. coli outbreak when everybody said he was losing his mind and that he was going to never make a penny. That his clients were never going to see their day in court, and they were never ever going to get compensated for their injuries.

Well, they were all wrong. Because of that, he pioneered the litigation against companies who make people sick due to contaminated food. Because in his hard work, food and fast-food restaurants and grocery stores are safer now. Now there's a consequence if companies don't take food safety seriously. I've learned a lot from this attorney about food poisoning litigation. I've learned a lot of just differences in styles, in advocacy, in the way they do things. They call it the practice of law because we should be practicing law, and we should be practicing to get better every day. Working with other lawyers and law firms in my career has, without a doubt, made me a better lawyer, and my law firm a better law firm.

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When a personal injury case settles without trial, the other side insurance company will require a release. A release means that they are paying money to settle the claim and that you agree to that amount and that you won't sue them again. We always get questions about releases so we address it here.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and The Hill law firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real. These are the cases we handle on a day to day basis.

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Oftentimes we're called about cases involving people that were injured at some sort of park or a private club or a gym where they have signed releases. This often creates complications in their case. Gyms, in particular, like to make all of their clientele sign releases so that they're not held responsible if somebody is injured or suffer some sort of personal injury while working out of their gym.

In San Antonio, every gym case I've seen has a personal injury release. Now, the releases in Texas require certain things to be held enforceable. One of the quirks in Texas is what's called the Express Negligence Rule. The release actually has to say that the party is releasing the gym or whatever group from acts of negligence by its employees or the corporation.

I had one case in which the Fortune 500 company actually failed to put those words in their release. A couple of words would have protected them from any litigation and they would have been able to injure my clients without recourse. However, we fought the release and a judge agreed with us that this Fortune 500 company had failed to follow the law.

Now, releases aren't always rock-solid. We tell everybody that has a release, that thinks they have a claim to let us take a look at the release. People that are injured and suffer personal injuries should not be held to where they can't get any recovery because of a release unless that release strictly complies with Texas Law. Another location you're seeing in these releases a lot is these trampoline parks that have become very popular.

A lot of young kids go to trampoline parks. They have birthday parties at trampoline parks. As you can expect, a bunch of kids bouncing high into the air can lead to a lot of injuries. There's been a lot of litigation and a lot of injuries that have arisen from incidents at trampoline parks. Now, without fail, the trampoline park has a release, but they can't hold that release against a minor.

Most of the people injured and playing trampoline parks are minors. That's one thing I always tell people that are worried that they can't bring a claim or that their kid can't bring a claim because of a release is that, first, minors can't be released. Second, releases have to strictly comply with Texas Law to be enforceable.

Anybody that calls our firm with an injury that thinks that they're barred from bringing a claim due to a release, we always ask them to come meet with us, talk to us, and let us review the release.

If the release in our opinion isn't enforceable, we fight that release to the courts. We let the courts decide because unless a Fortune 500 company or some other big business checks all the boxes and follows the law, they shouldn't be able to hide behind a release when they injure somebody else.

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Steven spent time in LA trying to make it in Hollywood before going back to law school at Baylor Law School. Since then, he has been an injury lawyer, a solo, a family and criminal practitioner and heavily involved in our community. Steven joins to chat about his practice and San Antonio.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill law firm. For confidentiality reasons, names and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day-to-day basis.

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All right, welcome to another episode of Hill Law Firm Cases podcast. As we've been doing, we have a few Q&A sessions with local lawyers. We like to get them on and talk to them about things. Today we have Steven Lopez, who's a partner with the Law Offices of Oscar Garza?

Steven Lopez: The Law Firm of Oscar A. Garza.

Justin: Okay, I'll make sure I got it right. Steven went to Baylor like myself. He was a little bit behind me at Baylor. It's a small group of lawyers here in town that are Baylor lawyers. I want to talk to him about a few things, talk to him about his community involvement. Because he's a little bit behind me, I want to talk to him about where his career is going and what he sees in our city. First, Steven, where were you born and raised? Where'd you do college and all that?

Steven: I was born in Chicago, Illinois. That's where my mom and dad lived when I was born. I was there for only about a year. I got to Texas as soon as I could.

Justin: What neighborhood in Chicago?

Steven: Southside. I was born in the south side of Chicago. Tough. It was tough-

Justin: White Sox people.

Steven: - living out there as an infant. That's where I got all my street cred.

Justin: You went to the RGV.

Steven: Yes, and I lived in the valley. I'm from Harlingen, Harlingen Cardinal. Cardinal spirit never dies. It's still alive and well in my blood. That's where I went to high school. After high school, went to UT. After UT, spent about nine years in Los Angeles and then went to Baylor Law School in 2009. Then did some time in Dallas after law school and then moved here about 2015.

Justin: Little known fact, Steven went to LA to make it as an actor. Your big break was a commercial, which one?

Steven: My big break was a Breakfast Jack commercial.

Justin: Jack in the Box?

Steven: Jack in the Box, but I did get edited out quite heavily. If you see the commercial today, you can see my head pushing a guy in a bed through the drive-thru.

Justin: I feel like I remember that. Now, we're not going to say the number, but when you told me how much money you got paid for that, it was a shocking amount of money for a commercial that you had a three-second spot. You made it, but then you decided, "This isn't enough for me. I'm going to go to law school." What made you choose Baylor Law?

Steven: Well, I wouldn't say that I made it.

Justin: Kind of made it.

Steven: I made some money. That commercial was the highest paying thing I did nine years. Mostly, I went on a lot of auditions, went to a lot of classes, and bartended at night.

Justin: Was it like Barry?

Steven: It was a little bit like Barry. There used to be a show with Brian Green, I think his name was, produced by George Clooney, about being an actor in LA. It was on HBO. Justin: Brian Austin...

Depositions are a part of any lawsuit. In San Antonio, the lawyers here are very quick to request and get a deposition of all parties in a lawsuit. A deposition is just a questioning under oath with lawyers present in the simplest terms. In this episode, we discuss what a deposition is and why it is part of the process.

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Justin Hill: Welcome to Hill Law Firm Cases, a podcast discussing real-world cases handled by Justin Hill and the Hill Law Firm. For confidentiality reasons, names, and amounts of any settlements have been removed. However, the facts are real and these are the cases we handle on a day to day basis.

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Justin Hill: We've been talking about the different parts of the case. Whenever somebody signs up with our office, we try to set their expectations, explained to them the process, and try to guide their understanding of what's going to happen so that they're not surprised when certain things do happen. They're not surprised by the timeline by which they happen. They understand how many different things are normal in this process. That at first glance to somebody who's never done it before, it might be scary.

We've talked about the discovery process, which comes after filing a lawsuit and the other side answers to that lawsuit. Then the law allows a period of what's called discovery. Discovery is an opportunity for both sides to develop facts to investigate the claim, to get information from the other side that will help them understand what the case is and prepare for trial. One of the elements of discovery is depositions. Depositions are a very normal part of any lawsuit. It's very rare we have cases in which depositions do not occur once a lawsuit is filed.

For the most part in a normal car wreck case, that usually just means the deposition of the plaintiff and the defendant and may be an investigating officer and maybe a medical doctor or provider. On the other end in a very complex product liability commercial bus case I had early in my career, that case had over a hundred depositions of witnesses and experts and all different people involved from the liability and the damages side of the case on both sides. The depositions are a very normal part of the process, and the deposition is a chance for each side to ask questions of another.

It could be the plaintiff's asking questions of the defendants, the defendant asking questions of the plaintiff or both sides asking questions of investigating officers, eyewitnesses, medical providers. It's a chance to ask questions under oath. It's a chance to discover facts about your case, to investigate lingering questions that either side may have about the case. It's a chance to prepare for trial, know what will be said at trial, and to understand the risk. Deposition testimony in Texas can be used in trial the same way someone was sitting on the stand.

Their trial or deposition transcript can be used in the trial, their video can be played in the trial. Now, I always tell my clients whenever they're getting ready for a deposition, for one to relax, the deposition is not a very high pressure or formal. For the most part, it's usually done in an office setting, in a conference room, for example. There will be attorneys from all the parties there. Sometimes that just means an attorney from each side because there are only two parties in a case or when there's 10, there might be 10 lawyers.

There'll be a court reporter there, typing everything down that they then put into a booklet, a transcript of the deposition. Sometimes there's a videographer and the videographers videoing the deposition, and that video can be played in trial. Depositions are informal. Generally, they're not high pressure and generally, people don't get out of control. For the most part, they're a slow methodic question-answer setting. The lawyer asking the questions or ask their question and the witness will then answer their...